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Selected Verse: Nahum 2:4 - King James

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Na 2:4 King James The chariots shall rage in the streets, they shall justle one against another in the broad ways: they shall seem like torches, they shall run like the lightnings.

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A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]
rage--are driven in furious haste (Jer 46:9).

justle one against another--run to and fro [MAURER].

in the broad ways-- (Ch2 32:6). Large open spaces in the suburbs of Nineveh.

they shall seem like torches--literally, "their (feminine in Hebrew) appearance (is)": namely, the appearance of the broad places is like that of torches, through the numbers of chariots in them flashing in the sun (Pro 8:26, Margin).

run like the lightnings--with rapid violence (Mat 24:27; Luk 10:18).
 
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18 And he said unto them, I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven.
27 For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
26 While as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the highest part of the dust of the world.
6 And he set captains of war over the people, and gathered them together to him in the street of the gate of the city, and spake comfortably to them, saying,
9 Come up, ye horses; and rage, ye chariots; and let the mighty men come forth; the Ethiopians and the Libyans, that handle the shield; and the Lydians, that handle and bend the bow.